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Divided Cities book now available

Minerva Partner Jon Calame is co-author of Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia, a book in the "Cities of the 21st Century" series from the University of Pennsylvania Press published in March 2009.

This book identifies patterns of urban partition and draws on extensive on-site interviews with urban design professionals to assess the effectiveness of their response. Ethnic partition is critiqued as a weak strategy in the face of conflict, unrest, and institutional discrimination.  New photos and maps never previously published are included.  Brief description and table of contents here.  For more information or advance copies of the book for review, please contact Jon Calame.


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cover image showing Beirut c. 1983, when the
Damascus Road was the partitioning "Green Line."


Order a copy through Amazon here, or through the UPenn Press website here (to receive
the publisher's 20% discount, please enter "9i7" in the discount code field).

Is Preservation Missing the Point?

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partners Kirstin Sechler and Jon Calame from Future Anterior (v. 1, n. 1 Spring 2004) here.

Divided Cities and Ethnic Conflict in the Urban Domain

Please find a conference paper by Minerva Partner Jon Calame presented October 4 2005 and published in ICCROM's Forum (Spring 2007) here.

Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Mostar

Please find a essay co-authored by Mineva Partner Jon Calame and Dr. Amir Pasic regarding the impacts of foreign investment in Mostar's revitalization from the working paper series of the Conflict in Cities and the Contested State program run out of Belfast, here.

Calame interview re: Nicosia Master Plan collaboration

Please find an interview by Nicos Trimikliniotis with Minerva partner Jon Calame regarding the accomplishments of the Nicosia Master Plan team from Cypriot daily newspaper Politis (May 2007) here. In Greek.

How Architectural Conservation Can Serve Social Development

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partners Jon Calame and Kirstin Sechler for Monday Developments, the newsletter of Interaction (August 2003) here.

The Divided City as Broken Artifact

Please find a journal article co-authored by Minerva partner Jon Calame and architect Esther Charlesworth for Mediterraneum's special issue on the protection of cultural and environmental patrimony in the context of crisis (November 2003) here.

The American Heritage Management Scene

Please find a recent article by Minerva partner Randall Mason, in The World of Cultural Heritage (v. 22 2006, p. 8) here. In original Japanese followed by English.

Theoretical and Practical Arguments for Values-Centered Preservation

Please find a recent article by Minerva partner Randall Mason, in Cultural Resource Management: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship (v. 3 n. 2 Summer 2006, p. 21) here.

Architects bridge diplomatic gap in Cyprus

Please find an Opinion piece regarding bi-communal projects in Cyprus written by Minerva partner Jon Calame for the Christian Science Monitor (30 April 2003) here.

we work with...

  • Stari Grad Agency of Mostar
  • International Peace Research Institute, Oslo: Cyprus Center
  • Pratt Center for Community Development
  • Nicosia Master Plan Team, Cyprus

we're reading...

  • C.P. Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
  • Gary W. Evans & Janetta Mitchell McCoy : When Buildings Don't Work: The Role of Architecture in Human Health
  • Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
  • R. Buckminster Fuller: Nine Chains to the Moon
  • F. William Engdahl: A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
  • Dean MacCannell: The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
  • Herman E. Daly: For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
  • Fernand Braudel: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structure of Everyday Life
  • International Peace and Cooperation Center: Successful Jerusalem: Vision, Scenarios, and Strategies
  • Philip Misselwitz: City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism
  • Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
  • Meron Benvenisti: Jerusalem, the torn city
  • Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
  • Bernard Rudofsky: Architecture Without Architects
  • Edward O. Wilson: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge